Operation Quotes

527 quotes by 434 authors

A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin
The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. — Anne O'Hare McCormick
Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic. — Marshall McLuhan
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand… — William Godwin
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in… — Stephen Jay Gould
Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have… — Gary Wolf
Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation? — Jack Germond
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world. — Jeffrey Toobin
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter… — P.J. O'Rourke
I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering,… — Rachel Joyce
There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it… — Jakob Bohme
Kofi Annan was the U.N. Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping operations. He had the responsibilities in regards to the mounting and operation of peacekeeping missions around… — Romeo Dallaire
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time:… — Noam Chomsky
For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to… — Wadah Khanfar
It would be normal for anybody running a high-profile, politically controversial operation in China to anticipate worst-case scenario, and to do everything possible to guard… — Rebecca MacKinnon
While Google no longer has a search engine operation inside China, it has maintained a large presence in Beijing and Shanghai focused on research and… — Rebecca MacKinnon
The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert… — Robert Dallek

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